Greatest Swashbucker of All Time?

**The Stranger** · 05-08-2006, 19:25

swashbuckler is sumthing like a buccaneer right...a pirate? i wouldnt know cuz i never really saw much pirate movies...exept pirates of the caribiean and another movie i cant recall its name of

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 05-09-2006, 02:24

swashbuckler is sumthing like a buccaneer right

A pirate is only one form of a swahbuckler. Basicly its a dude who fights with a sword. Im surprised no has mentoined the Govenator. Those Conan movies were pretty good. But Flynn has a long list of great swashbucling roles. Robinhood ,Captainblood, Don Juan, Charge of the Light Brigade,The Seahawks, The Private lives of Elizabeth and Essex and the Prince and the Pauper to name a few.

Douglas Fairbanks Jr has also played a lot of these types of roles. Another would be Tyrone Power, Made a great Zorro. And have any of you seen The Captain from Castile? A wonderful movie about Cortez.

**English assassin** · 05-09-2006, 10:11

Im surprised no has mentoined the Govenator. Those Conan movies were pretty good.

Nooooo, a swashbuckler has to fight with skill and speed, not strength, and also he has to be witty and to flirt (chastely) with the leading lady.

If he isn't using a rapier (cutlasses are acceptable for pirates) he isn't swashbuckling.

Tyrone Power is another good call, I used to love Zorro on saturday morning TV as a kid.

**Somebody Else** · 05-09-2006, 12:24

Modern actors in swashbuckling roles (and I'm just going to ignore Pirates of the Caribbean).

Er... Maybe Banderas? Difficult though - it's hard to reconcile the idea of a charming rogue with the square jawed goody goody moron favoured by Hollywood these days...

**Sasaki Kojiro** · 05-09-2006, 18:45

Burt Lancaster makes a pretty good swashbuckler as well. Used to be a circus performer, so he can do some pretty fancy acrobatics. I've only seen him in The Crimson Pirate and some William Tell movie.

**Blodrast** · 05-10-2006, 23:54

I'll go with Errol Flynn too.
What about Kirk Douglas, does he count as a swashbluckler ? See Spartacus, for instance.

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 05-13-2006, 00:08

Burt Lancaster makes a pretty good swashbuckler as well. Used to be a circus performer, so he can do some pretty fancy acrobatics. I've only seen him in The Crimson Pirate and some William Tell movie.

The Willian Tell one was The Flame and the Arrow . Both also featured a deaf mute who also did spectacular stunts and in real life was Burts parnter in his circus act billed as "Lang & Cravat"). Flynn alos performed most of his own stunts and swordplay. Does anyone know who was considered the finest fencer as an actor?